Effect of Core Stability Exercises and Russian Electrical Stimulation in Non-specific Low Back Pain

Effect of Core Stability Exercises and Russian Electrical Stimulation in Non-specific Low Back Pain (Randomized Control Trail)

Brief Summary: Low back pain (LBP) is an important public health problem due to the increasing world population and aging. In chronic LBP, exercise therapy is among the first-line treatments. Core stabilization exercises (CSE), one of the motor control exercises, focus on the activation and control of the deep spinal muscles. Recently, some studies have shown that Russian electrical stimulation alone or combined with exercise can provide contraction in deep stabilizer muscles and significantly reduce pain in patients with LBP

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Low Back Pain
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Russian electrical stimulation

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 50
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Egypt
  • Minya, Egypt, 05673
    • Deraya university

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• The duration of the disease is more than 3 months with pain scores greater than four in the VAS disability score of 19% or greater as evident from the modified oswestry disability.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Neurological or musculoskeletal diseases that affect lumbar spine (e.g: lumbar spondylosis, spondylolisthesis, and lumbar disc injuries)
• women during pregnancy and lactation.
• History of lumbar spine surgery.
• Signs of lumbar radiculopathy or myelopathy.
• Signs of serious pathology (e.g., malignancy, inflammatory disorders, infection

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: group A; The training group A will be treated by core stability exercises and Russian electrical stimulation	Other: Russian electrical stimulation; Type of Medium frequency current with 2500 Hz frequency modulated at 50 Hz with 50% Duty cycle training protocol is (10 sec. on time - 50 sec. off time - 10 minutes total time)
Active Comparator: group B; The training group B will be treated by core stability exercises.	Other: Russian electrical stimulation; Type of Medium frequency current with 2500 Hz frequency modulated at 50 Hz with 50% Duty cycle training protocol is (10 sec. on time - 50 sec. off time - 10 minutes total time)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Pain scoring	pain measured by VAS tool, 0 the least pain while 10 the highest one	6 weeks
Quality of life by using Oswestry Disability Index (OID)	questioner, Score from 0 to 19% indicate minimal disability- 20 to 39% represent moderate disability- 40 to 59% represent severe disability- 60 to 79% represent crippled disability- and scores from 80 to 100% represents patients that are confined to bed	6 weeks

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Muscle thickness assessment	Ultrasonography	6 weeks
Stability and mobility of spine	Spinal mouse assessment spinal vertebrate from 7th cervical vertebrae to 3rd sacral vertebrae	6 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Deraya University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): March 10, 2024
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 30, 2024
• Study Completion (Actual): July 31, 2024

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: July 2, 2024
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: July 2, 2024
• First Posted (Actual): July 10, 2024

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): June 26, 2025
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: June 24, 2025
• Last Verified: June 1, 2025

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Back Pain; Low Back Pain
• Other Study ID Numbers: physio 224

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: NO

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No